Strategic asset management is crucial to your business. It is the path to optimizing asset performance and helps control costs, manage resources, increase revenue and ensure regulatory compliance. It can have a direct and significant impact on your bottom line.
Corporations that view Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) as an investment that pays dividends over time rather than a cost center that requires minimum investment and focus enjoy the benefits of:
- Improved return on assets
- Decreased costs and risk
- Increased productivity
- Improved asset-related decision making
- Increased asset service delivery responsiveness and revenue
- Regulatory compliance
- Lower total cost of ownership
Selecting the right asset management solution—one that supports your business at all levels throughout asset lifecycle stages—and the right team to help you apply the solution to your business, is vital to getting the most from this important investment.
Business challenges
Companies world-wide are facing an economic environment unlike anything most have faced in the past. This environment has highlighted the importance of having the insight and view into all of their enterprise assets, their conditions and work processes for better planning and control.
To gain this insight companies are seeking a solution that:
- Manages asset deployment, specifications, monitoring, calibration, costing and tracking from a single system
- Provides enterprise asset management software for long and short-term planning, preventive, reactive and condition-based maintenance, schedule management, resource optimization and key performance indicators
- Plans inventory to meet maintenance demand, making the right parts available at the right location when needed
- Manages vendor contracts with comprehensive support for purchase, lease, rental, warranty, rate, master, blanket and user-defined contracts
- Aligns service levels with business objectives by defining service offerings and establishing service level agreements (SLAs)
Services we offer
IBM Maximo, one of the world’s leading asset management solutions, and IBM Global Business Services for Maximo provides the solution and the team you need. IBM Maximo’s comprehensive asset lifecycle and maintenance management supports all asset types, from a single unified platform. IBM Maximo covers assets from strategy and planning through procurement, maintenance and disposal. It facilitates asset utilization and supports performance demands and regulatory needs, enabling you to seize growth opportunities, and respond better to environmental and market pressures. IBM Maximo makes your enterprise ‘smarter’, interconnecting your systems, processes and infrastructure, and helping them to be more efficient, more productive and more responsive.
IBM Global Business Services for Maximo consultants help you implement your solution and integrate your operations to achieve this. They evaluate your asset management needs, design an approach that supports your business process drivers, and guide you in applying IBM Maximo to steer your enterprise. They help you apply IBM Maximo to enable more effective decision-making, and to transform your business.
IBM Maximo and the IBM Global Business Services portfolio of asset management tools and services provide a single approach to addressing your asset and service management needs cross all asset classes. The IBM Maximo Asset Management solution helps you run your business better, deliver exceptional value to your staff and to your customers, accomplish your business objectives, and attain a high return on your investment.
The Maximize Methodology contains multiple tracks our consultants apply to support different aspects of IBM Maximo. All tracks utilize a standard Statement of Work (SOW), a Project Plan, a Staffing Plan and Activity Descriptions for each Project Plan Phase. All tracks contain Work Products mapped to specific Project Plan tasks. Each Work Product is adapted to your specific project requirements—details may be different, but the process always remains the same.
Maximize Methodology Tracks are available to support the following business needs:
- Business case development
- Asset data migration services
- Enterprise asset management implementations
- Tivoli Asset Management for Information Technology (TAMIT) implementations
- Procurement implementations
- Upgrade assessments
- Technology upgrades
- Comprehensive upgrades
The components of each track provide a well-defined method for launching and delivering your IBM Maximo project. These tracks receive ongoing input from our worldwide base of consultants, who evaluate the tools and processes as they use them. This creates a continuous process of improvement to our methodology and increases the benefits to you.
The Maximize Methodology is part of our worldwide Asset Management Center of Excellence (AMcoe), which also houses our IBM Maximo Industry Solution Accelerators. Our AMcoe manages our leading practice intellectual capital and provides AMcoe Delivery Packs to our consultants to assure consistent solution delivery anywhere in the world.
Why IBM
Recognized by leading analysts as the best in class solution the IBM Maximo suite of products provides the most extensive functionality in a single Enterprise Asset Management Solution. This coupled with IBM Global Business Services for Maximo consultants, creates a winning combination to assure your success. IBM Global Business Services for Maximo consultants are part of the world’s largest and most experienced asset management consulting organization. They have delivered more IBM Maximo projects than any other service provider. IBM Maximo-trained and certified, they are supported by our Asset Management Center of Excellence. They provide unparalleled knowledge, skills and tools to implement powerful solutions that support your business. Choosing the right team is important. Choosing the right team with the right tools is invaluable—IBM Global Business Services for Maximo and the Maximize Methodology.